Development of Autonomy in Greenland – From Home Rule to Self-Government ...

• Main Author: Ackrén, Maria
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Autonomy Arrangements in the World, published by Eurac Research 2022
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.57749/t2fh-fy42; https://www.eurac.edu/doi/10-57749-t2fh-fy42

Denmark has a population of 5.7 million in total according to the 2016 census and the major language spoken is Danish as the official language, but there is also a German minority living along the borderline between Denmark and Germany. German is seen as the official minority language of a section of residents of the Region of Southern Denmark which was formerly known as the South Jutland County. The region was part of Germany before the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Of the 15,000 to 20,000 ethnic Germans living in the region, about 8,000 speak standard German or Low Saxon’s Schleswigsch variety in their everyday lives. This German minority population of Denmark also runs its own primary schools where German is the primary language of instruction (WorldAtlas 2017). Denmark can be seen as a largely homogenous country, but because of the vast immigration a lot of different nationalities have recently settled in the country. Today, 12.9% of the total Danish population is immigrants or descendants ...